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On the China Bookshelf
[…] Vice President of ChinaSource, and Amy, who serves with the online community Velvet Ashes, have spent decades in China, where their work included helping those who were new to China to make sense of life in the Middle Kingdom. Their conversation starts with the question, “Why read books on China?” In an age of […]
Is China Rewriting the Bible?
[…] much a political one. In response, the Three Self Patriotic Movement (TSPM), the officially sanctioned organization charged with overseeing China’s Protestant believers, launched a five-year campaign to promote the Sinicization of Christianity. The TSPM’s five-year plan covers a range of activities, touching on theological education, worship styles, art and literature, and, of course, promoting […]
Does Christianity Have a Future in China?
[…] mode. Revival and explosive growth, especially among house churches in the countryside, highlighted the acute need for Bibles and trained leaders. (During the previous 30 years no new leaders had been trained, nor had any Bibles or other resources been produced.) Many outside the officially recognized church faced persecution. The church's challenges at this […]
Editorials
Of Starfish and Spiders
[…] cut off, with the starfish, which has the remarkable ability to reproduce itself through injury. If one of its legs is severed the starfish grows back a new leg, and the severed leg has the potential to create a new starfish. The application to organizations and social networks is pretty straightforward. In today’s highly […]
Are China’s Churches Too Much Alike?
[…] situation in China appears particularly acute, perhaps due to the impact of rapid urbanization on the church’s development. As Christians have clustered in the cities and spawned new churches, urbanization has had a concentrating effect, bringing together a critical mass of people, ideas, and resources to create a new Christian culture. Meanwhile, pervasive social […]
Changing Dynamics of Church Growth in China
[…] discussion and an invitation for further reflection on the dynamics of church growth in China today. Migration Evidence suggests that urban congregations continue to grow in size. New churches are being planted. While the picture may look encouraging, this growth is due in part to Christians migrating from the countryside, where many churches are […]
Editorials
Toward a Chinese Theology
[…] church that was quite separate from this world. Under the TSPM, meanwhile, a push for religion to serve socialism led Bishop Ding Guangxun in the 1990s to promote a theology of “justification through love.” Ding’s effort at theological reconstruction may have caught the imagination of some in the theological community overseas but was roundly […]
Editorials
The Olympic Challenge
[…] sports fervor that is already sweeping China. The challenge for the church outside China will be to put aside organizational agendas and a tendency toward individual self- promotion, and to consider how best to support the long-term interests of the church in China given the variety of opportunities the Games presents. Will the watching […]
Some Additions to the Summer Bookshelf
The latest issue of The China Journal is out and features a host of reviews of new books that should be of interest to those concerned with developments in China. Here is a sampling of some of the latest scholarship touching on current issues affecting Chinese society and culture. Xinjiang and the Modern Chinese […]
ChinaSource Perspective
More Blessed to Receive
[…] they received much more than they contributed. As one long-time China worker put it, “They may have left China, but China has not left them.” They gained new friendships. They left with cherished memories and with new perspectives on themselves and what it means to be a follower of Christ in a land not […]